We labored lots on Labor Day. I put the girls to work sweeping the driveway and porch after my weed-whacking. Leah cheerfully grabbed a broom and did such a good job that even the neighbors complimented her. Brita, on the other hand pouted, claimed it was too hard, complained of the heat, went to get drinks every couple of minutes, couldn’t work because of the dragonflies, and so on. To be fair, when it comes time for homework the scenario is reversed. Brita happily and efficiently finishes everything and then grabs a book to read extra. Leah finds any excuse to play with Meg, change the subject, or volunteer to help with something else.
Rachelle gave a nice talk in church about not being judgmental. She’s never judgmental. Whenever she feels like being judgmental, she tells me about it and then I say what she was feeling so she doesn’t have to. I thrive on being judgmental, so it works out for both of us.
We were going to do a great picnic for Labor Day, but when we got to
I signed up for DirectTV last week mainly because I wanted to see all the BYU football games this fall. But after talking it over with Rachelle, we cancelled. My reasoning is I need access to more sports on TV like an alcoholic needs beer in the fridge. It’s hard enough to spend time with the kids when I don’t have anything tempting to watch on TV. Rachelle feels the same way about her shows (design shows, cooking shows, etc.), and we really don’t need the kids having access to cartoons 24/7. So unless I get invited over to watch the game with friends (hint, hint) I’ll be planted in front of my computer for 3 hours every Saturday listening to the game on the internet.
I know the TV has an off switch, but I'm not strong enough to use it. Another problem is Rachelle and I have such different taste in TV shows, we'd need to say goodbye after dinner, go our separate ways, and meet back up at bedtime. I don't think our marriage needs that either. Do other people have these problems? How do you deal with it? Maybe if the TV had a slot where you had to pay to watch it would impose discipline on us. What ideas do other people have besides "abstinence"?
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Have I mentioned I love Jared posts? We miss you guys.
I now force myself to watch lame sci-fi shows like Eureka and occasionally Dr. Who just so I can be in the same room as Marc, like while I'm folding laundry or something. He's pretty good about suffering through one of my HGTV House Hunters once in a while, and really the only show we watch together is Amazing Race, when it's on (hey, when is that coming back on again, anyways?) The network series' are usually so banal and tawdry that we don't waste time with those, and we usually watch TV together from 9-10pm (ish) and watch a show we've recorded so we don't have to waste time with the commercials. Works for us...
Oh, we love TiVo. We have super basic cable (like $11/month) and we have TiVo and it tapes stuff for us so effortlessly. I haven't seen a commercial (except by choice) in years. :)
Wish I could help with the game this Saturday but I won't be back until night time! Have fun listening to KSL, and I hope BYU does great!
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